Studies of a Youth Pulling Ropes (recto); Faint Study of a Youth Pulling a Rope (verso)

1610s

Aurelio Lomi

Associated Names
Aurelio Lomi

Artist, Italian, 1556 - 1622

This is a drawing of several figures in dynamic motion. The drawing, done on a bluish-grey paper, depicts sketchy and loosely rendered figures with limbs and torsos in different positions. The central figure is more detailed, with bent knees and arms that suggest movement. Light, shadow, and line contours accentuate muscular forms and postures. Other figures are drawn with lighter strokes. The composition conveys a study of human anatomy and movement.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and white chalk on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.6 × 29.6 cm (8 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.167.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

17th or 18th century collection, Florence (Giuseppe Santini?). Possibly Comte Eugène d'Oultremont [1845 - 1916], Aiseau-Presle, Belgium, and by descent. (sale, Christie's, London, 12 December 1985, no. 190). (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, by 2011); (sale, Christie's, London, 3 July 2018, no. 15); NGA purchase (via Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd., London) in 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2011

  • An Exhibition of Master Drawings. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art at Mark Murray Fine Paintings, New York, 2011, no. 6 (color).

Bibliography

1991

  • Turčić, Lawrence, and Mary Newcome. "Drawings by Aurelio Lomi" Paragone, XLII (1991): 46, no. 29 (not reprod.).

2012

  • Romalli, Cristiana, in Pierre Rosenberg et al., Dessins de la Collection Christian et Isabelle Adrien. Rennes, 2012: 49, note 7.

2015

  • Ongpin, Stephen. Renaissance to Futurism: A Selection of Italian Drawings, 1500-1920. London, 2015, no. 23 (color).

2019

  • Bober, Jonathan. "Genoese Baroque Drawings." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, No. 60(Spring, 2019): 28.

Inscriptions

on verso, very rough sketch of a figure

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